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Julie Kleinman's "Resisting the War on Migrants in Senegal" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum's "Complicating Cross-border Mobility in Ghana" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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December 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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📢📢📢 New Issue of AE Journal is Out 📢📢📢

From research articles on Ottoman objects and sci-fi chips to a forum on infectious disease and interviews on current affairs, Issue 52.4 of American Ethnologist is now available.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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New Special Collection Out!

The online collection, edited by Salwa Tareen, Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori and Hosanna Fukuzawa, explores 'what it means to witness and record heartbreaking anthropology.'

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December 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Nicki Kindersley, Mawal Marko Gatkuoth and Manal Abdulaziz Mudir's "Disaster Capitalism in South Sudan" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Marthe Achtnich's "A Necroeconomy of Mobility" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Erick Moreno Superlano's "Reterritorializing Venezuela’s Moral Geography in the US" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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November 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Ahlam Chemlali and Gabriella Sanchez's "Geographies of Containment: Tunisia and Mexico in the Age of Externalization" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Wendy Vogt's "Outsiders among Outsiders in a Migrant Chokepoint" -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Luigi Achilli’s 'Criminal Governance at Europe’s Externalized Frontier' -- now in the Bordering and the War on Migration Special Collection.

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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Read Anna Simone Reumert, Wendy Vogt and Charlie Piot's introduction into their Special Collection, Bordering and the War on Migration.

The online collection examines how communities around the world are affected by the criminalization of their mobility and how they respond to it.
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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New Special Collection Out!

The online collection, edited by Alejandra González Jiménez, focuses on the North American Free Trade Agreement and gives glimpses into worlds engendered by, or indirectly shaped by it.

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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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📢📢📢 New Interview Alert! 📢📢📢

AE interviews Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about abortion access and reproductive justice
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November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Attending #AAA2025 this year? Join @culanth.bsky.social and Society for Visual Anthropology for a reception on Thursday evening (11/20)-- there will be art, music, and food!
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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📢📢New Article Alert!📢📢
Are there any objects outside politics? Houston and Senay examine artistic practitioners' search for a Turkish past uncontaminated by the ideologies of the conservative Justice and Development Party.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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📢📢📢 New Article Alert! 📢📢📢
Samantha Maurer Fox writes on Hotel Lunik, a socialist spaceship lodging long since frozen mid-flight by post-Cold War speculative finance in Eisenhüttenstadt, the first planned city of the GDR.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Cara Snyder reviews // "Brazil's sex wars: The aesthetics of queer activism in São Paulo" // By Joseph Jay Sosa, University of Texas Press, 2024
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October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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📢📢📢 New Article Alert! 📢📢📢

How did Sierra Leoneans read the humanitarian spectacle of the ebola response? Raphael Frankfurter tracks rumors, violence, and militarization, showing how sociality and care kept working "beneath" the spectacle.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Laura Brueck reviews // "Fragile hope: Seeking justice for hate crimes in India" // By Sandhya Fuchs, @stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024

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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Helen Macdonald reviews // "Residual governance: How South Africa foretells planetary futures" // By Gabrielle Hecht, @dukepress.bsky.social, 2023

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October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Joost Jongerden reviews // “Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado” // By Andrew Ofstehage, @cornellupress.bsky.social, 2025

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October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review Essay 📚📚📚
Brent Crosson reviews // “A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean” // By Lee Cabatingan, University of Chicago Press, 2023

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October 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Nicholas Bainton reviews // "Unstable ground: The lives, deaths, and afterlives of gold in South Africa" // By Rosalind C. Morris, Columbia University Press, 2025

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October 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Sharif Gemie reviews // “Fraternal critique: The politics of the Muslim community in France” // By Kirsten Wesselhoeft, University of Chicago Press, 2025

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October 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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📚📚📚 New Book Review 📚📚📚
Pascale Boucicaut reviews // “Hoarding New Guinea” // By Rainer F. Buschmann, University of Nebraska Press, 2023

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October 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM